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racke7 · 1 month ago

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New course is on web-applications.

Cool.

Teacher gives us two weeks of material at once, because he's letting us "stockpile" it for christmas (which legally we're required to study during, but which factually nobody is going to study during).

Fair enough.

50% of the first assignment is things that we don't have any material that covers. As in, we're being asked to do X, but we have been given zero instructions for how to do X. It's something we can look up, sure, but it's very blatantly not in our material.

... I'm going to have to complain to him come monday, aren't I? And hopefully this is either an intentional push to get us to look things up ourselves (annoying, especially without prior warning), or an honest mistake of "wait shit, that video wasn't included?".

#this isn't the first time he's been out-of-touch with the material. but usually that's more ''he forgot the specifics''#(or ''not his area. but the school is too cheap to hire a specialist for a single mostly-irrelevant course'')#not ''i need you guys to compose some music. no i won't teach you how to read music-sheets. that'd be cheating.''#and also like... the assignment is very much intended for us to do ''everything all at once''? for some reason?#like it's supposed to get us to cobble together lots of pieces of functioning things that ''look good''?#with no thought to actual usability? i mean what the fuck do you mean you think we should have ''different buttons''?#as in ''make 'bad' buttons different from 'good' buttons''. like. so that they can't be read by colorblind people? why?#like. the assignment included two ''examples'' that had a LOT of complicated functions that i know NOTHING about #but the colors picked? probably pretty readable FOR ME. but like. for others?#webdesign isn't about ''fancy shit'' that fucks the end-user over. it's about having a functional fucking website.#and part of that is making buttons that are easy to see ARE buttons. that can be easily clicked on or avoided.#and which it's incredibly easy to see/guess at what they do (printer. email. etc)#anything other than that? you're risking screwing everything up. and you don't wanna do that. bcs that's dumb.#it means spending lots of time to do fancy shit. and then getting complaints. and then having to undo all the fancy shit for even MORE time #definitely kind of annoyed at getting this assignment as a basic exercise #especially when i saw a ''voluntary exercise'' that looked like it'd include only things we'd actually learned so far.#it didn't look complicated. but then this isn't the end of the damn course. maybe chill the fuck down?#personal stuff #school

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